By prioritizing profits over people, the immigrant detention industry has ballooned under President Trump—but so has the women-led resistance that’s challenging it. A report from reneefeltz & LVikkiml:
More than half of the 760,000 people already apprehended at the southern border this fiscal year are refugees from Central America—parents with children fleeing violence, persecution and poverty in their home countries. In desperation, many asylum-seekers cross away from official ports of entry where long waitlists are now the norm. When apprehended crossing the border illegally, they’re detained and can be criminally charged with a misdemeanor or felony under Trump’s.
Family units with children are supposed to get released within 20 days per the 1997 Flores Settlement Agreement, although the Trump administration has updated regulations to prolong their detention indefinitely, potentially in unlicensed facilities whose conditions are determined and overseen by ICE—instead of by state agencies. This move has been challenged by 20 state attorneys general and civil liberties groups.
“The ultimate problem here is that the government is choosing to detain people in this way,” notes Silky Shah, the longtime executive director of Detention Watch Network, a coalition of nearly 100 organizations, including La Resistencia, that work to abolish immigrant detention. “You have all these facilities that are subcontracted out, so their primary concern is the money that they’re making.” They’re not the only ones profiting from caging people.
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